REINCARNATION

PHYSICAL BIRTH CHARACTERISTICS

• Birthmarks are found in 33% of the recorded cases. (Generally, there are only 3% birthmarks or deformities at birth found within the population.)

• These are usually: wounds, surgical scars, severed limbs, diseases, deformities, facial features, skin and hair color of the deceased person (add image examples here).

• Birthmarks often correspond with wounds or marks of the deceased person (87% solved cases). In most cases (62%), marks correspond with wounds that have led to the former person’s death.

STATEMENTS OF CHLDREN ABOUT  A PAST LIFE

• Usually, a case will start with statements spontaneously made by the child, e.g. while playing. Typically, a child makes around 20 statements (max. 120) and can name max. 25 names.

• The children can often name their names from the previous life (73% of the 80 detailed cases by Stevenson).

• Similarly, children remember the residence of the former person (74%).

• The child discusses about objects or reclaims objects mostly from its former ownership, without having seen these before (33%).

• The nature and circumstances of the former person’s death is often described (in case of a violent death 94%, and in case of a natural death 52%).

• The child was able to recall the murderer’s name from the earlier life (in 57% of the 28 homicides that occurred in the 80 detailed cases).

RECOGNITION OF PERSONS, OBJECTS AND PLACES

• Most children often recognize: former family members during a first visit (in 20% of 80 cases) or even when coincidentally meeting people, when seeing objects (40%) and roads and places (40%). The children then sometimes talk about changes which have taken place (26%).

  • If the children recognize people, they can call them by their correct names (46%), nicknames (25%) or they can name family relationships (69%).

  • The re-discovered roads are sometimes no longer being used (31%).

  • Attempts to confuse the children, e.g. by asking leading questions, often fail (21% of the 80 cases).

• Sometimes children can better identify people on older photographs.

EMOTIONS

• Most children similarly take on emotions and behaviors the deceased person had to his/her environment during the earlier life

• The identification with the deceased person is often reflected in the language:

  • It is often spoken about ‘I’/‘me’

  • Children are often familiar with their previous names (75%) or would like to be called by their former name (15%).

  • Although children can distinguish between the tenses, they may continuously talk in the presence of the previous life (28%)

• Children often express, under strong will, that they want to be brought to their former home

• Sometimes, the children make property claims (26%).

CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS

• Children who talk about a rebirth often stand out for certain traits or for certain behaviors which are consistent with those of the deceased person:

  • Phobias (37% in case of violent death; 7% in case of natural death of the previous person): often explainable by the circumstances of death in the past life.

  • Preferences and habits, e.g. beverages, tobacco, clothing, body language, gambling behaviors, religion, eating habits, special interests

  • Skills (e.g. abilities such as sewing or cooking) and capabilities (e.g. playing a musical instrument, language skills, which have not been learned) and with which inheritance is nowadays discussed controversially

ANNOUNCING AND DEPARTURE DREAMS'

• Memories of a past life can occur in dreams 

• Distinguished is between:

  • ‘Arrival dreams’ (difficult to distinguish from presentiments): a to-be mother (32% before conception, 49% during pregnancy, 19% shortly after birth) dreams of a deceased person who tells her about or asks her for reincarnation (67 % mothers, 16% fathers)

  • ‘Leaving dreams’: take place with family members of the deceased person who are still alive today

STATEMENTS ABOUT THE BEYOND

• Memories of the time between the lives (23%)

• Reincarnation cases which include memories on the Beyond often showcase more proven facts

• Distinction between:

  • Earth-bound memories (in 36% positively verified): are memories of the funeral of the deceased person, memories on events after death, memories on the conception or on birth of the new life

  • Memories of the Beyond (not verifiable, but harmonizing with near-death experiences regressions etc.): memories of going towards the Beyond shortly after death in the previous life, memories on events in a disembodied sphere as well as on the preparation of the rebirth